That's what I was thinking. It'll face an old film on BBC1 and has been trailered to death. Surely 6m is what they should be looking to get.


Potentially not good omens. It did take The Voice several weeks to get to 3000 followers, numbers could go up when Superstar is finally on air. Sunday morning around here will be interesting.

Have any Channel 4, Channel 5 and multichannel ratings yet?

7pm to 7.30pm yesterday on BBC1 in my region was BBC London News (which should have been at 6.30pm to cover the Olympic torch relay arriving at Chelmsford).

BBC Sport have promised that Murray Walker will be commentating during the weekend at some point (I'm guessing the qualifying on BBC2 now to try and divert some people away from Sky F1).

Big Brother ratings were so low that Barb is doing a recount just to make sure it didnt miss someone out

Yes, it was local news at 7.00 in England, with the rest of the UK opting out with other programmes as they were able to air their news on BBC2 at 6.30.

Did they miss the live torch arrival then?

Haha evil

It arrived at Hylands Park (home of the V Festival) at around 6.50pm (during the original scheduled programme of 6.30pm to 6.55pm), I don't think anyone noticed anything untoward.

Absolute disaster at the British Grand Prix, qualifying has been suspended due to torrential rain. Will try and complete later today, if not it will have to be done prior to the race tomorrow...

its being reported live feed on 5*got 355k last night was wondering can anyone confirm pls?

Don't think so, the link took me to articles from Jan 2012. Eg. CBB9 LF

that would be an amazing number for 30 mins show.
next friday if they dont decide to cut 30 mins off again will be better test IMHO.

Webber's new show will miss Graham Norton. I sense Norton and Webber get along quite well, and Norton seems to relax Webber and stop him looking too uncomfortable. I'm not sure about this 9pm business for weeknight editions, either. There seems to be an unfathomable mentality at ITV nowadays, flying in the face of all the evidence, that because Talent and Celeb have done well in that slot, every other entertainment format will, too. If they can't make most entertainment shows work in traditional Saturday night slots, how do they expect them to work in the 9pm weeknight slots normally reserved for dramas and docos?

I sense Fincham's hand in this. Wasn't he responsible for BBC One's brief foray into dire 8/9pm talent shows such as Just the Two of Us and Only Fools on Horses? And let us not forget the doomed-to-fail attempt to turn Davina McCall into a Wednesday night chat show host in the 8pm slot, despite her having few, if any, credentials for such a promotion, and despite BBC One not having had a successful midweek entertainment format since they played a series of The Two Ronnies there in the mid-1980s?

DALLAS


3.3 million viewers with a 1.0 on the demo.

Viewership dropped considerably, but demo was only down 0.1.


Here's the ratings so far:

Episode 1 - 6.86 1.5
Episode 2 - 6.86 1.5
Episode 3 - 4.76 1.3
Episode 4 - 4.08 1.1
Episode 5 - 3.36 1.0

The Sky at Night has now been scrapped on BBC 2 according to the EPG. They're hoping to get F1 qualifying started again.

Bit of a nightmare this F1 broadcast. They are really struggling to fill time.

Did they delay the torch?

Starting to rain at Wimbledon. First set just completed in Ladies final, covers on court now. They're debating on whether to close the roof.

Lucky I set it to record on BBC4 some time.

Players come back onto court on BBC 1 and cars go back on the track on BBC 2 almost simulteanously!

I think BBC will drop Raiders of The Lost Ark tonight if the Wimbledon Men's Doubles Final involving Briton Jonathan Marray is still on at that time. I think they'll keep that on BBC One instead of moving it to BBC Two. Theres also an extra incentive to dent Superstars launch rating as there will be over 5million people wanting to watch a British Wimbledon victory whereas less than 5million would watch Indiana Jones repeat.

I really hope they do but I seriously doubt they would. Hypothetically if Serena wraps this up and they get onto Centre by 4, doubles matches are always faster so it could be complete by 6.10 anyway. But I hope that if it does go on they will have the sense to stay with it, it's not like a doubles final is somewhat worse than a singles semi-final in my opinion. And they were mentioning it in the headlines on Breakfast this morning, hopefully the BBC will see sense, I think it could rate very well opposite mediocre competition. Personally I always find doubles more exciting.

Wrong thread.

I was tricked into thinking that Horses thing was a repeat of the classic sitcom, only to find it was some celebreality thing with Sara Cox trying to showjump. I do recall it being shown against BB and the reality show that I'm not supposed to mention again and some obscure sport on BBC 2 in what must have been the worst schedule ever for analog viewers.

What we were watching in 1999:
1 Coronation Street 07 Mar 1999 ITV 19.82
2 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 07 Mar 1999 ITV 19.21
3 Heartbeat 28 Feb 1999 ITV 17.01
4 Touch Of Frost 21 Mar 1999 ITV 16.85
5 Eastenders 07 Jan 1999 BBC1 15.72
6 Champions League Final: Man Utd v Bayern Munich 26 May 1999 ITV 15.62
7 Walking With Dinosaurs 04 Oct 1999 BBC1 15.00
8 Euro 2000 Play-Off: England v Scotland 17 Nov 1999 ITV 14.60
9 The Vicar Of Dibley 27 Dec 1999 BBC1 14.37
10 New You've Been Framed 07 Nov 1999 ITV 13.90

A good year for ITV with Millionaire being THE show everyone was talking about and one top ten regular appearing again YBF in the days when it was a studio show with an audience. Also Corrie giving EE a real beating, wonder what was so special about the episode on 7/3/99.
For the BBC John Birt's retirement announcement couldn't have come to soon. By the end of the nineties BBC1 was noted for being dominated by pets, vets, ageing and unfunny sitcoms and cheap lifestyle programming.

Superstar will be lucky to get 5m, let alone 7m. The players taking part in the DSRPG guessed an average of 4.4m which is far more likely IMO. Indeed, considering the rubbish around it that could be seen as a relative success.

Let's Get Gold performed dreadfully and they'll be pleased to see the back of it tonight. The second Coronation Street also picked up an very bad share, dragged down by an early start and sharing five minute with Grimefighters. EastEnders did well but the stand out rating, of course, are the excellent Wimbledon figures.